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W. P. DODSON.

ATTACHMENT FOR IRONING TABLES.

N0. 364,580. Paten'tedJune 7, 1887..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILSON P. DODSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALE TO JOHN LITTLE, OF SAME PLAoE.

ATTACHMENT FOR lR ONlNG-TABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,580, dated June 7, 1887.

Application filed August 13, 1886.

I To all whom it may concern:

Being it known that I, WILSON P. DODSON,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia. and 5 State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Ironing-Tables, of which the following is a specification. My invention consists in the combination with a bracket having longitudinal cheeks upon its sides andprovided with a central pin, which is attached by screws to the under side of an ironing-table or skirt-board and a slotted casting loosely journaled on the central pin of I 5 the bracket, and to which the slotted leg or support of the outer endof the table is secured upon its upper end by means of a pair of rivets or equivalent fastening, the opposite end of the table to which the device is attached being secured to a standing table or to a shelf or projection from the wall of a room, as may suit convenience, by means of a clamp.

The object for which the invention is designed is to construct a device which can be attached to tables or boards now in use, and the slot-ted casting and connected leg of which can'be readily turned to assume a parallel line with the table in the same horizontal plane, to permit of the placing thereon of a garment, and returned to its vertical position as a support for said table, as more fully hereinafter described. v V

In the accompanying drawings, which make a part of this specification, Figure 1 is an edge elevation of my improvement attached to a table and connected to a standing table by means of a clamp upon its rear end. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the table A, with the leg D folded beneath in the same horizontal plane.

40 Fig. 3 is a view of the under surface of the table, with the leg in same position as in Fig.

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by means of the clamp B, readily adjustable 5o thereon.

O is a bracket connected to the under surface of the table A by means of screws or rivets a. The bracket has the cheeks b projected downward from each edge, through which the 5 bolt d passes, and held by means of the nut e.

E isa metallic casting, (seen in detail in Figs. 5, 6, and 7,) that is secured upon the upper end of the leg D by means of the pair of bolts or rivets g, and whichis provided with the longi- 6o tudinal slot i, equal in width to the diameter of the bolt d. The leg D is preferably formed of wood, and has the longitudinal slot i formed therein as a continuation of the slot 6 of the casting E, the slot 1? z" of the casting and con 6 5 nected leg being of Sufficient length to permit of the leg as an entirety being turned onefourth around upon the bolt d from the position seen in Fig. l to that shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, to allowof the passage of a garment 7o desired to be placed upon the board and the return of the leg to its vertical position.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The leg for an ironing-table, composed of 7 the pieces D and E, and provided with the longitudinal slot i z", in combination with a bracket having a journal, d, attached to the under surface of said table, substantially in the manner herein shown and described.

WILSON P. DODSON.

Witnesses:

THOMAS J. BEwLEY, J. B. MAssEY. 

